Ron DeSantis has raced to the defense of his 2024 Republican rival, Donald Trump, to attack the Justice Department and ask why he isn’t going after Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden.
The Governor of Florida said Thursday night: “The militarization of federal law enforcement poses a deadly threat to a free society.”
He attacked the Biden administration hours after Trump revealed he had been charged with seven federal counts in the classified documents case.
However, DeSantis, who ranks second in polls across the country, did not say he would forgive Trump if elected.
“We have seen for years unequal application of the law based on political affiliation.
‘Why so zealous about prosecuting Trump and yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter? The DeSantis administration will hold the DOJ accountable, eliminate political bias, and end militarization once and for all.
Ron DeSantis ran to the defense of his 2024 Republican rival, Donald Trump, to attack the Justice Department and ask why he doesn’t go after Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden
DeSantis and Trump traded bars as the 2024 Republican campaign for president heats up.
But DeSantis let his guard down to criticize the decision that makes Trump the first president to face federal charges.
He joined Republican members of Congress in tearing up the double standard of justice and said the timing of the indictment was timely given new allegations that President Biden took a bribe. $5 million wine from a Burisma executive when he was vice president.
“Today is indeed a dark day for the United States of America,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said.
“It is inadmissible for a president to indict the main candidate who opposes him. Joe Biden kept classified documents for decades.
“I and all Americans who believe in the rule of law stand with President Trump against this grave injustice. House Republicans will blame this brazen militarization of power.
“If those in power can jail their political opponents at will, we don’t have a republic,” tweeted Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), coming to the defense of Trump, who led his supporters by chanting “lock”. her up’ during the 2016 campaign.
“DOJ indicts former president/candidate Trump SAME DAY DOJ/FBI restricts access to unnecessarily redacted Biden allegations And they wonder why people think there are two standards of justice,” the senator fumed Judiciary Committee Senior Member Charles Grassley of Iowa on Twitter.
Trump raged at the ‘corrupt Biden administration’ and accused them of election interference in a video released just minutes after his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey was announced
Grassley has spent weeks joining Representative James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, in pressuring the FBI to turn over information containing allegations about Biden.
Trump raged against the “corrupt Biden administration” and accused them of election interference in a video released just minutes after his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey was announced.
It is the second set of charges against Trump this year, throwing the country into further legal and political uncertainty as he campaigns to return to office and after his defeat by President Joe Biden in 2020.
That means the leading Republican primary candidate will have to split his time between the courtroom and the campaign trail as he tries to seal the GOP nomination.
A source told DailyMail.com that Trump was charged with possession of classified documents and obstruction, and that the seven counts related to those two areas.
DeSantis has hit the campaign trail hard since announcing his run late last month and had his wife Casey DeSantis by his side
Documents found at Mar-a-Lago during an August raid are on display
His attorney Jim Trusty also confirmed he was charged with withholding national defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, misrepresentation and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Prosecutors have been investigating the transfer of presidential records to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida since last year.
The investigation made headlines in August when the FBI raided Trump’s Florida home, recovering 11,000 documents, around 100 of which were marked as classified.
For his part, Trump has repeatedly insisted he did nothing wrong and was the victim of a federal witch hunt.
At times, the controversy has even bolstered his standing in the polls and allowed him to raise money from supporters who see a “deep state” plot to knock him out of the 2024 race.
